Challenge Overview

A large credit card company has fired an employee. Before his departure, the employee plans to set off a logic bomb shortly after he departs from the company. An employee overheard his phone conversation about his plans to target the central file server. You have very little knowledge of what will result from the logic bomb. Your task is navigating to the main central server, determining potential vulnerabilities, and gaining root access to the target machine by identifying and exploiting the vulnerabilities before reporting the same to your InfoSec team. This challenge requires knowledge of network scanning skills and SQL injection techniques. Players will demonstrate the use of privilege escalation. The target web server runs on Linux Ubuntu with an IP address of 10.10.1.57. By completing this task, you will gain hands-on knowledge in Module 03: Scanning Networks, Module 06: System Hacking, and Module 14: Hacking Web Application, as covered in the Certified Ethical Hacker course objectives.

What You Will Learn

  • Identifying open ports, running services, and potential attack surfaces on the Ubuntu target server.
  • Discovering and exploiting SQL injection vulnerabilities to enumerate databases and extract valid user credentials.
  • Systematically retrieving sensitive information from backend databases to facilitate further access.
  • Using extracted credentials to gain authenticated access and identify privilege escalation vectors.
  • Exploiting improperly configured sudo permissions to escalate privileges and obtain full root access.

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